A few months ago, I played a small role in a short film called Lily’s Hope. About a Chinese girl who is forced into prostitution, the film’s intention is to raise awareness about sex slavery. I’ve posted the video here, but check out the website, too, it has a lot of great links to resources [...]

So these days, everyone’s creating their own content and putting it online. Many people put their stuff out there and build followings. Others enter contests and such. Sometimes we’re lucky and we get featured on YouTube ;] Online video is and has been the future. Heck, you may quite possibly see a shift with peachies.net [...]

If you’re Asian Pacific American, 30 or under, an emerging filmmaker, and live in LA, this is a program I would encourage you to check out! I was part of the ‘05 program and it was awesome. Great peeps, great resources, and great networking.

Haha, me 4 years younger… with a really cheesy bio.
Here’s the piece [...]

Normally, I don’t go out to theaters very much, but so far, this summer, I’ve been able to see a few movies, and so far so good.

Last night I watched UP in 3-D… such a touching film! I cried within the first 10 minutes! And honestly, I don’t even think you really need to watch [...]

The 4th Annual Talent 1 Media Film Festival is going down next Saturday, June 13th and will be a day filled with lots of good stuff. Check out the schedule here.

I checked out the film fest last year cuz’ some of my friends were involved in a few of the short films that screened. There [...]

Alright. It’s that time of year again. My music video program for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is coming up. This is my third year curating it and they say “third time’s a charm!”
This year, we’re taking it downtown to the Downtown Independent and Toyota has come on board to [...]

Back in late ‘06, Michael Kang approached me about finding music for his film WEST 32ND. Michael specifically wanted to include as many Asian American artists as possible, so this was quite a pleasure for me. Back then, my Myspace music “database” of Asian American artists was a really good resource, plus being [...]

I haven’t seen it yet, but I am just really happy for Justin Lin and how far he has come! Justin, congrats for the record-breaking opening and for being #1 in the Box Office! So awesome.

So I’d been wanting to see Across the Universe since I saw the movie posters for it back when it was out in theaters. I finally watched it and I can’t get it out of my head! 33 Beatles songs! Anyway, I think it was a pretty awesome film with so many [...]

Starts tomorrow! And I wish I could go up for it! Grr.
Anyway, just wanted to let all you SF peeps know that the “Words That Define” music video I worked on a few months ago will be premiering at a FREE outdoor film fest event this coming Saturday, March 14 at 7:20pm in [...]